Posts Tagged ‘ video ’

Social media giant Facebook Inc. has been relentlessly trying to takeover Instagram’s market share. It has either been launching competitive products or simply buying them out. In its third attempt, Facebook has launched Flash, the new standalone app has Instagram’s short-lived photo and video m...

Instant messaging platform WhatsApp is now facing stiff competition with the likes of Google Allo, Snapchat and Hike adding new features to its interface. To stay relevant WhatsApp is testing a new interface with the status updates tab. WhatsApp’s new feature will allow users to send images to its...

Over the past couple of years several companies have launched over-the-top (OTT) video platforms in India, including major international players such as Netflix. Television and film production company Balaji Telefilms Ltd is set to be the latest to roll out an OTT platform. To be launched by unit AL...

One-year-old Gurgaon-based start-up Next Gen Paper Solutions Pvt Ltd that runs Kleeto, a service enabling companies and individuals to manage their physical and digital documents, has launched a new feature where all kleeto customers can save their audio/video clips on kleeto accounts in multiple fo...

Private equity firm SAIF Partners has invested $5 million in A2 Media Pvt Ltd whose flagship product is the online video site iStream.com. The four-year-old company has recently launched its own platform for streaming content across multiple genres like news, TV shows and movies. iStream was founded...

Samsung Electronics has extended the free 3D Video-On-Demand (VOD) service to its Indian consumers who have bought its Internet enabled, SMART TVs. The firm is not charging for 3D VOD content which can be accessed after downloading the ‘Explore 3D’ application from Samsung Apps. At present it ha...

Netflix Inc, facing a backlash from customers upset over a price hike, warned its subscriber growth would cool down in the third quarter, and its shares fell 10 percent. The movie rental company, whose stock is up 850 percent since early 2009, set off alarm bells on Monday when it said customer defe...

Internet video company Hulu expects its number of paid subscribers to top 1 million by summer’s end, earlier than previously forecast, its chief executive said on Wednesday. “We are extremely encouraged by the ramp of this business,” Chief Executive Jason Kilar said on the company&...

Vdopia Inc, a Silicon Valley-headquartered mobile video advertising company, with offices in the US and India has launched a new file format, .VDO that enables advertisers and publishers to seamlessly run video-enabled ads on the mobile web without flash or plug-ins. This patent-pending format, powe...